Course Weblog

Following a conversation we had a few weeks ago in class, it looks like someone’s created a new service that will allow you to swap in your own images in place of Google’s default maps (for their web-based Maps service). Check it out here.

Tuesday December 5th from 5-7pm, Research 1 Room 462, Center for History & New Media, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

This fall’s Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities focuses on the opportunities and challenges presented by Web 2.0 technologies for digital humanists. Speakers will include Bryan Alexander on “Web 2.0 and Digital Humanists,” Dan Cohen on “Zotero and the Next Generation of Scholarly Research,” and Eddie Maloney on “When is an ePortfolio not an ePortfolio? Georgetown University’s Digital Notebook project.”

So, we need to schedule final project presentations: I’m figuring that we’ve got 7 slots on November 28th, and 10 slots on Dec. 5th. In the great tradition of calling shotgun on long car rides, use the comment thread below to claim a spot on whatever day you prefer (if you’ve got a particular need for one day over another, explain below or in a separate e-mail, and I’ll adjust accordingly).

Remember, these are by no means expected to be final presentations, and so I’d encourage you to consider the benefits of presenting earlier rather than later…

Unfortunately, in the crush of various things last week I managed to forget to post additional readings under the heading of “Scholarship”...we’ll be fine for class itself, but here are a few additional things worth looking at:

Bill Turkelbeat me to mentioning it, but he’s teaching a similar class to ours (Digital History: Methodology for the Infinite Archive ) up at the University of Western Ontario. I’d strongly encourage you all to check out his syllabus and, particularly, browse his students’ blogs; hopefully, we can engage in some healthy cross-course discussion (especially as both courses share many of the same readings).